Hey "FINGERHUT"...Have I got A Finger For You!

"FINGERHUT" is one of the largest mail-order shopping companies in
the world.  They supply qualified consumers with an easy month-to-month
payment schedule, for products from a comprehensive catalogue of 
housewares, electronics, and other sundry items.  The payments are
generally low and appear to reflect savings on otherwise expensive
items.  They also offer "FREE" items as premiums to faithful customers.

Sounds good doesn't it?  Unfortunately, their claims are just as 
dubious as their competitors.  To begin with, those low payments over
a long period of time, are actually nearly twice the cost of purchasing
the product outright.  

Secondly, their catalogue is extremely misleading.  Pictured products 
seldom meet the expectations promised.  

And those "FREE" gifts?  Garbage.  Cheesey plastic utensils which can
be picked up in any "DOLLAR STORE" for thirty cents!  The postage was
higher than the value of these gifts! 

I first became aware of the "FINGERHUT" company, about twenty years 
ago.  I was living on a meager wage, and unable to purchase what I then
considered big ticket items.  I contracted to buy a FISHER Video Tape
Recorder and a collection of RUBBERMAID storage containers.  I was 
extremely happy with the products, and initially trusted "FINGERHUT".

Fast forward to 1995.  My new wife and I decided to move to a larger
dwelling.  We purchased new towels, pots & pans, and another set of
RUBBERMAID containers from "FINGERHUT".  We received our products, 
and packed them away for the new house.  

I was dissatisfied with the towels.  They were very thin and smaller 
than expected.  However the price was right and we decided to keep 
them.  The other objects wound up in storage for a few months.

After finally moving into our new home, we opened our packages and 
discovered the RUBBERMAID containers had been redesigned, and had 
inherent flaws.  (They didn't open, or close the way the original set
did.  RUBBERMAID still made the containers which I had originally 
purchased, and it was this design that I thought I was ordering.)  
I was unhappy with them and asked to return them.  I was told we had 
kept them longer than their return policy allowed for.  

Once again, I accepted the product, though reluctantly.

We then began using the "non-stick" bakeware (pots & pans).  I liked 
them at first.  However, after using these pans for roughly two weeks,
the "non-stick" surface began to peel, and the lids were rusting.  All
of these pans ultimately suffered the same fate.

I again contacted "FINGERHUT" with my complaint, and once again they
denied me remedy.  I finally blew my top.  Despite multiple attempts to
get my money back, I realized I had been scammed.  I reported them to
the Attorney General's Office, and was told I must defer to the 
original agreement, which through typical legal "gobble-de-gook", 
absolved "FINGERHUT" of any responsibility.

Obviously it was time to sever any connection I had with this company.  
Unfortunately, they apparently think otherwise.  To this day, despite 
numerous requests to be removed from their mailing list, I receive 
their "junk catalogues" four, or five times a month.

You would be amazed at how much money I have saved on toilet paper!

FINGERHUT CORPORATION
11 McLELAND ROAD
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA 56395
http://www.fingerhut.com